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Selected Books

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Financing the New Space Industry: Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support (Springer Nature, 2019)

Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities: 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001)

The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)

NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation (Springer, 2017)

Space and the American Imagination (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership (University of Illinois Press, 1997)

Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, Winner of the Henry Adams Prize.)

Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) 

About Us

Two Pi is a university-based initiative that examines government policies aimed at promoting innovation in space science and technology. Two Pi provides information and policy advice through objective analysis and research. These efforts result in the production of publicly-available papers that can be found on the 2Pi website. The site also features materials that assist in the teaching of science and technology policy.

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